Feature
List of Feature articles
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Matt Dorfman The Elephants in the Room
Barack Obama's Republican challengers haven't thought very deeply about foreign policy. It shows.
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Javier Jaen Napoleon’s Curse
The illusion of omnipotence has exhausted America and spoiled its allies.
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Javier Jaen A Hummer in Every Driveway
Americans use more energy per capita than any other country, and have nothing to show for it.
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549041_america_mees_791585602.jpg The Perils of Loose Living
For decades, Americans have looked to monetary policy as an engine of economic growth -- and suffered the dire consequences.
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Javier Jaen Cashing Out
America's status as the world's banker has shielded it from harsh economic realities for more than half a century. Not anymore.
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549032_america_algergawi_520635582.jpg Left Behind
Americans created the knowledge economy. So why can't they keep up with it anymore?
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SAMUEL KUBANI/AFP/Getty Images Atomic Dogs
Why can't the world's nuclear energy watchdog do anything about Fukushima or Iran's weapons program? I went to find out.
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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Can a Supercomputer Predict a Revolution?
Not quite yet. But a new study suggests how it may one day be possible.
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549934_110908_Reading15.jpg Reading Shakespeare in Kandahar
The United States has won some measure of revenge in the 10 years since 9/11. But as in Shakespeare's bloodthirsty play Titus Andronicus, has the cost been too great?
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Getty Images Lightning Rod
As Dick Cheney's punch-throwing memoir hits store shelves, Foreign Policy hosts a freewheeling debate on the legacy of America's most controversial vice president.
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550667_rsz_tahrir_10863927512.jpg The Road to Tahrir
The roots of Egyptians' rage can be traced back to bad economic advice from the IMF -- and the crony capitalism it left behind.
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Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Life After Debt
In this month's market upheavals in the United States and Europe, we are witnessing the end of a seven-decade economic experiment. But does anyone have any clue what comes next?
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Information Design by Laura Stanton for FP The FP Survey: The Internet
You can't talk about the future without talking about the thing that's shaping the future the most. Some 20 years on, the Internet has upended entrenched business models, opened up a world of information to people all over the globe, and possibly even helped topple a dictator or two. But is the open web in danger? As 24/7 connectivity becomes an ever more inextricable part of our daily lives, FP asked some of the world's top experts to tell us where the Net is headed next.
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Harry Lynch/The News & Observer via AP Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These Days?
A decade after 9/11, the mystery is not why so many Muslims turn to terror -- but why so few have joined al Qaeda's jihad.